Word Family Worksheets

● Watery grave - If someone has gone to a watery grave, they have drowned. 

Example: They went to a watery grave while they were swimming.

● Hot water - If you get into hot water, you get into trouble. 

Example: He found himself in hot water over his speech about immigration...

● Water over the dam - If something has happened and cannot be changed, it is water over the dam. 

Example: The fact that I hurt her is water over the dam.

● Water under the bridge - If something belongs to the past and isn't important or troubling any more, it is water under the bridge. 

Example: I don't want to talk about that—it's all water under the bridge now.

● Water off a duck's back - If criticism or something similar is like water off a duck's back to somebody, they aren't affected by it in the slightest. 

Example: He's always been told he's lazy, but it's just water off a duck's back to him.

● Like a fish out of water - If someone feels like a fish out of water, they are very uncomfortable in the situation they are in. 

Example: I always feel like a fish out of water in literature lessons.

● Keep your head above water - If you are just managing to survive financially, you are keeping your head above water. 

Example: With extra income from my father, I just keep my head above water.

● You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink - This idiom means you can offer something to someone, like good advice, but you cannot make them take it. 

Example: What can I do if he doesn’t accept the situation: I can lead a horse to water, but I can't make it drink.

● Be in deep water -To be in a difficult situation which is hard to deal with. 

Example: We're going to be in deep water if the bank refuses to authorize a bigger loan.

● Could talk under water - Someone who could talk under water has a lot to say in any situation. 

Example: Most of us were very quiet, but Ibrahim could talk under water, so he kept the conversation going.